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The importance of meat for health has been established and supported for a number of reasons. Meat comes to offer various healthy nutrients to us including proteins, zinc, vitamins and much more. According to the studies conducted by American Meat Institute meat whether red or white has an important role to play in developing our muscle strength, skin, formation of …

Farming has a plethora of benefits for not only the owner of the farm, but also for the people who are linked to the process. The same is equally true for the chicken farming which has a wide variety of benefits for everyone. The term free range chicken has been confused till now. In reality, free range chickens are those …

The use of Poultry manure fertilizer is becoming a common practice (especially Chicken manure as fertilizer) with many farmers throughout the world as this matter content has in store various nutritional elements for various fields or crops. These nutritional elements are very effective in increasing the productivity and rapid growth of farms e.g. farms that produce vegetables. What manure basically …

  It is always fun to keep backyard fellows and enjoy their presence. However, over the time there are many things, which cause chaos for the keepers because of lack of knowledge about the birds in the flocks. Many get upset because of the natural changes; in contrast to this, there are people who leave many serious issues ignored. Therefore, …

Poultry Housing – The Basic Requirements to Consider Chicken farming has become a profitable business lately and its good to try it out. One factor to consider before any other is poultry housing. Every poultry production system must provide the most important requirements. Good examples include the following: Safety from weather: Domestic birds must be shielded from the cold, rain, …

Common Terms Used in Poultry Science Aves (Avian) Class of birds pertaining to all species of birds including domestic fowl. Axial Feather Also called as index feather. A short feather in the middle of wing., separating primary feathers from secondary ones. Auto-sexing Sex differentiation at day-old age on the basis of some visual characters such as colour of down (fluff), early …

Masses in many countries are getting inclined towards the idea of backyard chicken coop. The idea of raising your own chicken can be used as a very interesting hobby and it also allows you to attain fresh eggs that these chickens produce. There are various aspects which you need to study about chicken coops to build the most suitable coop. …

MANAGEMENT OF LAYERS Maximum hen-housed egg production with fair egg size, feed efficiency and minimum mortality are the prime goals of layer farming. Beside good genetic make up of bird, management during laying plays an important role to achieve the above-mentioned targets in egg production. Following are the vital aspects of efficient layer management: Segregation and Transfer of Pullets Ready to …

Poultry processing makes use of a number of processing plants and equipment. The poultry dressing plants vary in their limits and types depending on the particular class of domesticated animals to be processed in them. The larger sized broiler processing plants process chickens and other related animals at a high rate of 10000 on an hourly basis, which goes to …